April 2005

by Rafael Hernandez on April 15, 2005 · 0 comments

HotHardware has a look at the AMD Sempron 3300+ processor. The CPU is designed for socket 754 motherboards and sports a few enhancements over previous versions, such as SSE3 support, but it comes in with half the cache of the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 14, 2005 · 0 comments

HardwareZone has a review of the ASUS V6500V notebook computer. The laptop features some powerful components including an Intel Pentium M processor and the ATI Radeon Mobility X600. A sleek and well put together PC that suffers from a poor…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 14, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has some fun at the expense of an Nvidia nForce4 Intel Edition motherboard and an Intel 955X based board. The two were tested using an Intel dual-core CPU making it a pair of powerhouse setups. Nvidia’s solution holds a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 14, 2005 · 0 comments

bios has a look at the HP Pavilion zv5000 notebook computer. The laptop comes equipped with a potent AMD Athlon 3400+ CPU paired up with the somewhat ancient Nvidia GeForce4 440 Go GPU. Good performance for office apps, light-gaming and…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 14, 2005 · 0 comments

CoolTechZone has a review of the Abit KV8 Pro motherboard. The board is designed for AMD’s Athlon 64 socket 754 line which has seen a number of new products drop in supporting it. It looks like a solid board, overall,…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 14, 2005 · 0 comments

PC Perspective has a look at the AOpen XC Cube EY855-II SFF barebones system. The rig can take Intel’s Pentium M CPU which is well suited for the cramped spaces machines like this have become. Impressive mini system with a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 13, 2005 · 0 comments

Microsoft has released a number of security updates and patches for some of its operating systems and software. A max total of five critical updates which can lead to compromised systems are available. Check out Windows Update for the patches…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 13, 2005 · 0 comments

ExtremeTech has a review of the MSI RS480M2-IL MicroATX motherboard. The board uses ATI’s Radeon Xpress 200 chipset which happens to have an on-board graphics unit making a preliminary upgrade to this board a little less costly. Another solid MSI…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 13, 2005 · 0 comments

Viper Lair tested the HIS X850XT PE IceQ II graphics card. The board has ATI’s current top performing GPU on board paired up with some speedy RAM and a cooling system that is an improvement over stock designs. Top performance…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 13, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has tested a group of TV tuners which play nicely (most of the time) with Microsoft’s Windows XP Media Center Edition. The six tuners have wildly differing feature sets and image quality which gives some boards a boost over…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 13, 2005 · 0 comments

PenStar Systems has a look at the Albatron GeForce TC 6200 graphics card. The board uses Nvidia’s GeForce 6200 graphics core and has 64MB of on-board memory and makes use of the “Turbo Cache” technology and uses system RAM to…

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